Party Radar: Terracotta Warriors come out to plaaa-aay

By marke

Created 02/20/2013 - 7:09pm

I've dreamt of traveling to Xi'an, China and witnessing the ancient army of buried terracotta warriors[1] practically my whole life. The uncanny legions frozen in fired clay, each individual's features uniquely fashioned, were discovered underground in 1974, a kinda creepy burial accompaniment of the first emperor Qin Shihuang (259-210 BCE), in a tomb complex the size of a city.

Now, some of those mesmerising warriors are coming to me, via the Asian Art Museum[2]'s "China's Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor's Legacy" where a selection of life-size figures and related objects will be exhibited Feb 22-May 27.

So of course it's time to party, electro '80s cult B-movie style!

In an inspired touch, the everyone-should-be-there opening party on Thu/21[3] will feature Cheryl[4], a surrealist disco performance quartet -- think retro-future aerobics meets electro Warriors[5] -- from New York, as well as DJs Pink Lightning (Stay Gold), Nick, and Bay favorite Hokobo kicking out gritty jams. And, in fact, that staple of '80s sci-fi playlist movie musts, Warriors, is providing the theme. Although with Cheryl, you never know where that theme is gonna go. Somewhere cosmically Warrior-y, I'm sure.